Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less a star than a character actor who needs smaller roles in order to regain his comic stature. In part, the blame may lie with a bland, spiritless script that fancies itself original in lampooning western cliches, yet has the temerity to steal Jack Benny's most famous joke: "Your money or your life." Pause. "Well?" "I'm thinking." Theft and rape may sometimes be forgivable; plagiarism never...
After lunch Dobrynin strolled through the Yard on a short tour with William G. Anderson '39, University Marshal. Under the Harvard, American, and Russian flags raised in his honor, Dobrynin stopped to joke with associates and reporters. One of his party offered the ambassador's autograph to the few who recognized Dobrynin...
...German and Allied troops. The movie goes with the Hogan's Heroes school of soldiers for both sides of the conflict. The Germans have names like Hamburger and, as in the latest Gillette ad, go through the old gag in which the commander laughs at the subordinate's joke, stops laughing, and then glares while the subordinate gulps. At one point a young lieutenant with a stubby mustache comes running in shouting something about Mein Kampf, and is told. "Later, Adolph, later...
...Goldwater confided: "We had every cable of every television company and every radio company marked up in the loft of the Cow Palace. If anybody got a little too obnoxious to us, they could always have cable trouble." Next day on ABC Barry explained that it was all a joke. "There never was any thought of cutting lines," he said...
...fatalistic sense of humor also helps. IBM executives like to joke that their corporate initials stand for "I've Been Moved." "We're in the business of landscaping for other people," cracks Frank Allston, who has moved six times while working for General Electric's press-relations department. "We seed lawns and plant shrubbery-and then another family takes the house." Adds another constant mover: "There are three ways of assuring you'll be transferred: finish building a house, buy a new house, or have your wife pregnant...